Beach v. Jeffery

On the 19th day of October, 1876, appellants sued out of the Circuit Court of Cook county, a capias acl respondendum against appellee, who being arrested by the sheriff, gave bail as required by law. Appellants filed their declaration in said cause to the ¡November term, 1876, in trespass on the case, consisting of three counts, alleging fraud on the part of appellee, by means of which appellants were cheated and defrauded out of a number of sewing machines, the particular facts constituting such alleged fraud being specified in each of said counts, being substantially the same cause of…